[cabmandone]

My friggin transmission line running to the cooler decided to break... Not pop... break. The damn fancy fitting they use just broke! 86,000 miles on a 2012 and it just broke!

I was helping move my daughter to Cuyahoga Falls. We got everything setup for her. I hooked back up to my trailer and we take off. No puddle in the apartment complex parking lot. I didn't even make it 1 mile from her place when my truck refuses to move. No lights, no warnings, nothing.

I'm sitting at a light on this wonderfully busy four lane road on a decent incline. Light turns green... me no go. On with the flashers (I swear to god no one knows what 4 way flashers mean today), get out and pop the hood (which in defense of the who didn't know what 4 ways meant, the trailer blocked the fact that my hood was up) I immediately notice ATF on the road. As I'm waiving people around me I can see a nice line of what used to be in my transmission on the road.

So I call a towing company. They say they can't pull the truck and trailer together. I tell them I just need them to get me off the road and there's a restaurant to my immediate right that they can pull me into... Nope! Can't pull a truck attached to a trailer and they want to send two trucks. I tell them I'll pass. My daughter shows up and picks up my wife and younger daughter. I tell them to go to Autozone and buy 18 quarts of ATF. I put about 14 quarts in, fire up the truck, hang a hard right and into the parking lot I go! I shut it down and put a blanket under the truck to keep from dumping a puddle of ATF in the parking lot. I find that damn broken fitting broken. Back to autozone! 4 more quarts of ATF, 2 feet of high pressure power steering line, one small tubing cutter, 4 hose clamps. FIXED and I just made it back home about 30 minutes ago.

The one thing that stood out to me, other than no one knowing what 4 way flashers mean, was that no one bothered to ask if I needed help. A nice lady who was working at the bar was on break. I was telling her what happened and she brought me out a beer. I offered to pay but she said "this one is on me". I walked in, ordered another, dropped a $20 on the counter and told her to keep the change. She was one of the bright spots in an otherwise sh.tty situation.